Zelensky is entirely justified in speaking bluntly like this to Europeans. Too many seem willing to see Ukrainians suffer to provide Europe greater time and security, without acknowledging that Ukraineβs fight is their own.
If Europe found a way for him to save face and move on, great. But Carney's speech was still spoken and was still true. The bell has rung.
Murphy: "As their agenda becomes more unpopular, they then become more dependent on trying to rig out democracy and rig the next election, bc nobody is gonna vote these guys back in ... You gotta connect the dots here. What they are trying to do is rationalize violence."
Some thoughts about the murder by ICE in Minnesota.
This is the time for all of us to demand much better and to show whatβs right.
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Reverse Cramer in the house!
Casually announcing plans to murder American citizens for wrongthink.
Well, if we study Russia as a guide to how this is going to go, the $40 billion dollar ICE budget should net out at about $4 billion after all the stealing along the chain of command, so there is that...
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German businesses heard a similar pitch in 1940.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
βMommy, no. Mommy.β
Daughter captures the moment masked ICE agents smash the window of her mother's car in order to take her into custody.
The government claims the 52-year old seamstress is an associate of the MS-13 gang.
www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/lo...
Spot the American. Is it someone who speaks his mind and does the work to get citizenship? Or is it someone born into citizenship who covers his face while abducting people in a Π§Π΅ΡΠ½ΡΠΉ Π²ΠΎΡΠΎΠ½?
no criminal record
no gang ties
no tattoos
active pending asylum case
**19 years old**
sent by trump to prison (forever?) in el salvador
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
People write to ask how they can help Ukraine. The country's soldiers face renewed attacks from Russia. There is a simple way to make sure that more Ukrainian soldiers survive, and to send a message that we support them: by funding armored evacuation vehicles.
snyder.substack.com/p/armored-am...
How Trumpβs Ukraine policy makes a world war more likely (reposting from November).
snyder.substack.com/p/a-third-wo...
I donβt think you are grateful enough. Have you said thank you?
About a thousand times.
Well, I donβt think you have. Or not enough
Thatβs how low we have gone in less than 2 months
Here I react to the shameful behavior of American leaders and media toward the Ukrainian president. No doubt there were more, but I saw five failures on our side: of hospitality, decency, democracy, strategy, and independence. Please watch and share.
snyder.substack.com/p/five-failu...
βWe cannot be made to be afraid of these f**king people. I know these people. They are cowards" - Tim Miller
Musk is attempting to destroy the federal government from the inside while admitting that he is doing so. Typically excellent summary from Heather Cox Richardson.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/february-3...
The logic of the coup that is going on now. And how to resist it.
snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...
Photo of snowdrops in the middle of winter :/
Seeing snowdrops at the beginning of February⦠not so great.
app icon sketch: serial console
app icon sketch: serial console
app icon sketch: serial console
various symbolic icon sketches. non branded attempt to signify ollama - a local, non cloud reliant way to run llms.
Friday sketches!
#procreate #sketch #gnome #app #icon
The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.
A horrific image of a someone who seems to have his hands tied behind his back. A big cat (the predator kind, not the overfed pet kind) has jumped up at him and is devouring his face. Blood splashes on the floor.
For Blue Monday we can't think of anything more appropriate than this charming depiction of a man getting his face eaten off by a leopard.
#MosaicMonday
